Joachim Wtewael
Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan
by Anne W. Lowenthal
The Dutch history painter Joachim Wtewael is widely admired for his astonishing small paintings on copper. The Getty Museum's Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan is one of his finest works in this unusually demanding medium. Though only eight inches high, this Mannerist painting contains eleven figures in three different spaces, captured in a dramatically charged moment from the famous story told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses.
The author's detailed analysis of Wtewael's painting also serves as a fine introduction to Dutch art of the Golden Age. Illustrated with seventy reproductions of paintings, drawings, etchings, and decorative objects, Anne W. Lowenthal's study ranges over the broad historical and cultural context in which Mars and Venus was created.
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Art, Criticism and interpretation, Vulcan (Roman deity), Venus (Roman deity), Mars (Roman deity), Art, modern, 17th-18th centuries, Art and mythology, Critique et interprétation, Mars (Divinité romaine), Vénus (Divinité romaine), Vulcain (Divinité romaine), Venus en Mars betrapt door Vulcanus (Wtewael), J. Paul Getty MuseumPeople
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Joachim Wtewael: Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan
1995, J. Paul Getty Museum
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0892363045 9780892363049
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-84)
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